Alcatraz Island ... every juicy detail. When Al Capone headed there in 1934, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, “Capone sagged at his first glimpse of the prison.” In September of that ...

Sam Bankman-Fried had hoped to win freedom by making a long-shot bid for a presidential pardon. Instead, he began the next ...

The infamous prison closed on March 21, 1963, after 29 years of operation. The main cell block that ... in Atlanta, Al Capone was transferred to maximum-security Alcatraz in San Francisco amid ...

Ai sits in a replica of the prison cell in which he was detained in 2011 ... the austere prison hospital and primitive psychiatric ward, where Al Capone was treated for syphilis and dementia ...

US: “Break the rules and you go to prison. Break the prison rules and you go to Alcatraz ... The most famous of all was one Al “Scarface” Capone who had been convicted of tax evasion.